As Frilly stress Lizzy out, did the SWs forget her heart defect? Will there be long term llama drama karma in The Archers?

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BikingBeatrix - I'm not sure I follow you. Acting for R&H would have been a conflict of interest because she might have to act against a friend, but what would be the conflict between Freddy's interests and friendship with his mother (who is paying the legal bill)?

As soon as Elizabeth announced she was cooking a salmon I knew it would all end in tears - an omen of doom in The Archers if ever there was one.

lilian Not such a bad omen IMO; the thought that if Russ is going to be cooking for Lily she'll miss lovely food like salmon and broccoli with green beans (or peas!) and run back to mummy , or at least the halls of residence!. The sound of his totally unhealthy "health" food made me want to throw up.

Lillian - and presumably if a tuna bake appears then it is truly the end. I wonder if the writers have a fish-based scale (pun intended) of dramatic outcomes? Tin of sardines = mild peril.

I suppose fish are the main food type that a rural farming community can’t produce themselves, so they represent the unknown, a challenge to familiarity and stability. There’s probably a dissertation in this...

DDD - I think there is definitely a fish-based scale It's a safe to say fish on the menu is rarely a red herring in Archers plots.

That's a brilliant notion, DDD! Fish as a symbol of the unknown in a farming village - wonderful. There's just one tiny problem, and that's the Home Farm fishing lake. Didn't Jennifer used to have a lot of lake trout in the freezer?

And the dead fish Kirsty found, in some body of water never since referred to, that was the harbinger of Brian's Doom

I don't know if I want to write this or read this more. DDD this is but fabulous.

What's with all the tigers on here?

I'm sure my "fish-as-intruding-motif" theory has many holes. I mean pineapples. Where do they fit in? There aren't many of them grown in Ambridge.

in some body of water never since referred to

That would be the Am, source of the name of the village, and the flood.

Was just going to say the Am.
Wasn’t someone illegally fishing crayfish from it once too (George?).

is jim the wise elf from ben&holly?

Who on earth is this Beryl Pat keeps talking about?

I was also wondering if Freddy is going to end up working with horses now.

Lastly, thank you to whoever it was who explained BOOP. I'd been mystefied by that for ages - no amount of Googling could explain it.

Beryl was one of the workers on the lazy weeder and things like that wasn't she? Older lady, used to eye young Tom up and make him embarrassed if memory serves me right.

Terribly sorry, I still don’t get it - what is BOOP?

Short for username BitOutOfPractice, who got fed up with us always carping on and was much better at finding things she liked than most of us are. So now if any of the hypercritical brigade can squeeze out a rare word of praise, it's a BOOP point.

TeenTimesTwo Now I'm even more confused. What's a lazy weeder?
I've been listening for 8 years and I swear I've never heard this woman mentioned before.

I imagine a lazy weeder to be a wide low (6-12 inches above the ground)platform towed along behind a tractor. The workers lie on it with their heads and arms stuck out the back. As the tractor goes along slowly, they weed the ground. Bridge Farm is organic so they can't use pesticides to kill weeds. Know idea if I'm right, I have never wanted to dispel the image I have in my head.

I'm not making it up - see comment 2 in www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thearchers/2011/05/the_new_agricultural_story_edi.html

OK they face forward, and various different types, but my vision wasn't too far off.

No idea. Not know idea.

Wow. Who knew that was a thing. Thanks!

I've been listening for my whole life. I think I was named after one of the characters who was born a few months before I was.

Up thread, someone asked if there was a site that did reviews , since Lowfields seems to be permanently down.. I'm not sure it was answered but in case it wasnt, updates are available in Musterdland (also known as Peets Place RIP). It seems to be done by the same people who did Lowfield

Lowfield has worked again for me in the last few days.